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Computer virtualization with VirtualBox: Guest OS copying and extending

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Virtualization is one of the greatest technologies and there are numerous practical aspects of it together with cool factors which provides a huge advantage for businesses. The main benefit is a money-saving aspect related to a minimised hardware cost, systems' replication, disaster recovery, software testing. Since computer virtualization allows a number of operating systems to be used on a single machine that facilitate the beneficial computer resource utilisation. Virtualization allows easy creation of base computing environment, software / network testing, application deployment, etc. Virtualization can help tremendously especially if it is free, lightweight and easy to use. This is where Sun VirtualBox comes to play. VirtualBox is a great desktop virtualization solution which has a number of advantages such as free to use (for personal and evaluation purpose), open source, less resource usage in host, performance benefits, snapshots, save and resume time of virtual